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Licensing declarations in font spec files
by Benson Muite 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

Hi, Am reviewing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257137 the font is under OFL-1.1-RN license, but the conf file is under MIT. Should the spec file contain %global fontlicense OFL-1.1-RFN %license MIT %global fontlicenses fonts/LICENSE.txt if not, where should the conf file license declaration be made? Benson

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Variable fonts
by Benson Muite 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Are there any recommendations for packaging variable fonts in Fedora? OpenSuse seems to have support for them: https://src.opensuse.org/pool/cyreal-lora-fonts/src/branch/factory/cyreal-l… Benson

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Fedora 42 i18n test week from 4th March
by Parag Nemade 02 Mar '25

02 Mar '25

Hi all, We will be having the Fedora 42 i18n test week starting 4th March. Check details about this test week event at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2025-03-04_I18N_Test_Day wiki page. You can submit your results on page http://testdays.fedorainfracloud.org/events/210 You can download the latest working Workstation/Silverblue/Kinoite iso from https://www.happyassassin.net/nightlies.html page also. Do join us and provide your testing feedback. Thank you. Regards, Parag

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Fwd: Post-Mozilla Fira font family
by Mateus Rodrigues Costa 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Hi, I asked about the Fira fonts on the fedora-devel and they suggested me to forward the email to the Fonts SIG mailing list. Please read the following message: ---------- Forwarded message --------- De: Mateus Rodrigues Costa <mateusrodcosta(a)gmail.com> Date: qui., 12 de set. de 2024 às 15:37 Subject: Post-Mozilla Fira font family To: <devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Hello all, So, as you guys might know Mozilla commissioned the development of the Fira fonts with the goal of using it for FirefoxOS (which is mostly dead nowadays unless you consider KaiOS). [1] However Mozilla abandoned development of Fira Sans on version 4.2, whereas bBox Type GmbH developed Fira Sans further up until version 4.3 and ended up also extending Fira Sans with more language support by request of a different company, which got released as a new font: Fira GO. [2] I opened a bug report a while back asking for changing the upstream of the current Fira fonts from the mozilla upstream to the bBox Type one, although I haven't received any reply yet. [3] Do note that this would affect the already packaged Fira Sans and Fira Mono fonts by upgrading to slightly newer versions from a new upstream, the Fira GO font would be a new package available on the repos and the Fira Code and Fira Math (not sure if this one is packaged) are unrelated to this change as they are completely separate fonts forked from the main Fira ones with their own upstreams. What can be done here? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_(typeface) [2] https://bboxtype.com/downloads/Projects/FiraGO_FiraSans_180109.pdf [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308744 Thanks for your time, Mateus Rodrigues Costa

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Fedora 41 i18n test week from 10th September
by Parag Nemade 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Hi all, We will be having the Fedora 41 i18n test week starting 10th September. Check details about this test week event at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2024-09-10_I18N_Test_Day wiki page. You can submit your results on page http://testdays.fedorainfracloud.org/events/195 You can download the latest working Workstation/Silverblue/Kinoite iso from https://www.happyassassin.net/nightlies.html page also. Do join us and provide your testing feedback. Thank you. Regards, Parag

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[Review-request] rsms-inter-fonts
by Luya Tshimbalanga 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Hello team, I am looking for a packager to review the package rsms-inter-fonts used as default by Blender 3D software. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253619 The spec is straightforward as it uses the fonts template. Thanks in advance -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Design Team Fedora Design Suite maintainer

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Re: Building Inter fonts
by Parag Nemade 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

Hi Luya, On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 6:51 AM Luya Tshimbalanga <luya(a)coolest-storm.net> wrote: > Hello team, > > I have an issue building Inter fonts using font spec template. > > https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@designsuite/fonts/fedor… > > Can someone investigate please? The spec file is attached for preview. > Use this in %prep ---------------------------- -%autosetup -n inter-%{version} +%autosetup -c inter-%{version} ----------------------------- Then you should be able to build this font package. Regards, Parag >

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Building Inter fonts
by Luya Tshimbalanga 02 Dec '23

02 Dec '23

Hello team, I have an issue building Inter fonts using font spec template. https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@designsuite/fonts/fedor… Can someone investigate please? The spec file is attached for preview. Thanks in advance. -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Design Team Fedora Design Suite maintainer

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Issue with rendering on Comfortaa
by Luya Tshimbalanga 08 Nov '23

08 Nov '23

Hello team, It appears an issue occurred with Comfortaa fonts when using "8". Can someone investigate the root cause of the problem? See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248572 for details. Thanks in advance. -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Design Team Fedora Design Suite maintainer

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Lohit vs Noto Indic fonts
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hi, we have been thinking about the default fonts for Indic (Indian) scripts in Fedora. For many languages in Fedora we are already using Google's open-source Noto fonts (for most Western languages and also Arabic and CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) and more, not least Emoji too. Also already for Gurmukhi (Punjabi) and Sinhala. $ rpm -qa google-noto-*-fonts | wc -l 26 Noto fonts have the advantage that they are available in different faces ("Sans" and "Serif") and multiple weights (also as Variable Fonts (VF), which can save a lot of space). They also seem to be generally actively maintained. So we would like feedback on how Indian Fedora users feel about using the Indic Noto fonts compared to Lohit fonts (which we haven't been able to maintain actively for some time now), given the above advantages. Sudip Shil has prepared some comparison screenshots using his fonts-compare tool of Lohit vs Noto: see https://sshil.fedorapeople.org/lohit-vs-noto-comparison.html To easily test Noto yourself, Sudip Shil has also prepared a Copr repo which contains the Lohit fonts rebuilt with lower priority: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sshil/indic-fonts-test which needs to be enabled: $ sudo dnf copr enable sshil/indic-fonts-test Furthermore it is necessary to install the corresponding Noto VF fonts $ sudo dnf install google-noto-sans-devanagari-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-bengali-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-gujarati-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-kannada-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-oriya-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-tamil-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-telugu-vf-fonts Then run: $ sudo dnf update lohit-*-fonts *Note*: if you are on Fedora Rawhide you currently have to "dnf remove lohit-*-fonts" instead, since the Indic Noto fonts there have lower priority currently. And now you should see Noto as the default for most Indic scripts: $ for lang in as bho bn brx doi gu hi hne kn kok mai ml mni mr or pa sa sat ta te; do echo -en "$lang\t" ; fc-match :lang=$lang family; done You may prefer to try this first in a test VM, or to shut down your important applications using Indic text first before changing the fonts on your system. The instructions on Sudip's Copr repo also include the steps for undoing these changes. Do let us know what you think of the Noto fonts compared to Lohit for Indic scripts. If they look good we can consider switching those scripts to default to Noto. Jens -- Fedora & Red Hat i18n team

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